Healthgrades looks for the hospitals that are best at most of the things people need.
Twenty Pennsylvania hospitals, including a handful in central Pennsylvania, are ranked among the 250 best in the United States by an organization called Healthgrades.Healthgrades calculates that 161,615 lives per year could be saved if all hospitals cared for patients as well as the top 250, which comprise 5% of U.S. hospitals.
Being in the top 250 puts a hospital among the top 5% of about 4,500 hospitals in the United States; being in the top 100 puts a hospital in the top 2%; being in the top 50 puts a hospital in the top 1%.
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